Lucky Souvannarath - Constructing Your Own Supplemental Material
The provided download is a resource describing the benefits of creating personalized supplemental material for your classroom, along with helpful tips on how to make them. An example is also provided below as a download.
Tour Time!Take a tour of Ancient Rome using the Rome Reborn video link below: https://vimeo.com/32038695
As you travel throughout the ancient city, pay special attention to the buildings and other clues about Ancient Roman life. You may watch the video to the end (5 min) before searching back to the building or structure of your choice. This is an independent assignment. (No partners or small groups) Assignment:Choose one building or structure to research for a short written essay (5 paragraphs.) You may choose one picture, which can be saved to the class flash drive for printing.
Isabela Nickel- A Plethora of Resources...All In One!
This website is an excellent resource to use when planning lessons or designing instruction. You can choose from a variety of lesson plans, the grade level you are teaching, and the state. The website will then give you the standards for your state that are being exemplified in your lesson! Pretty cool. If you are all out of ideas and need a good resource to freshen up and include state standards, this website has your back! http://www.readwritethink.org/
Brian Records - Super Cool Box!
Folks! I got this box that helps me stay organized. It's pretty much just a file cabinet that is portable. It's really nice because I can file all of my graded, ungraded, and unentered student assignments by class separately. Also, I keep all of my extra lesson plans and worksheets in here. Then, I can bring this box home with me, and back to school again.
As soon as I take assignments out of the tray, they go in this box, and they stay in here - and I can be certain that I have kept track of all assignments. This makes dealing with the comment "I turned that in!" much easier, as I can confidently tell the student to check their binder.
Austin Mann - ZipGrade- Grade Paper Tests and Exit Tickets
Description: Grade multiple choice tests, quizzes, and assessments instantly in the classroom from your smart phone. The free version gives you 200 tests and quizzes for free to grade. After that it costs only a dollar for unlimited. USD 259 has the correct testing paper for it, and they are more than willing to use it. It cuts your grading time down by half. It will tell which answers the students got right and which ones they got wrong. It’s a fantastic tool that I’ve used myself and I highly recommend its use. You can get it at the app store, or download it at www.ZipGrade.com. Most school districts will actually give you the dollar to download the unlimited version.
Lindsey B. - Live Binders (Your three-ring binder for the web.)
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
This website provides lesson plans and complete units for almost anything that a teacher would like to teach. You are able to post your own lessons to the site and bring in some extra income as well. There are resources such as PowerPoint's over vocabulary, study guides for guided reading, and some units even upload tests that you can administer to students. There are multiple units for almost every area of study, and it allows you to sort uploads by grade level, price, and subject. Some of the material is free, but most cost around $5-10. The larger units cost more, but usually they provide more detailed activities and a larger variety of activities for the class.
This is a character analysis map that I had my honors sophomores use while talking about the different ways to characterize a character while reading. My students used this map to characterize Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451. It was challenging for students to complete each section of the chart, but not impossible for them to finish. This was a great activity during my unit where students were able to dig deeper into the story and analyze characters for themselves.
Austin Mann - Organizing Student Papers
Using Disney characters to help keep assignments more organized is a useful tool in helping students go back to past assignments and makes turning in or passing back so much easier. The example I have provided is the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. It allows students to write down characters and their traits. Since they will have to go back to this sheet many times, I have put Elsa, a character that they all know, on the front of the assignment. This way I can say “Pull out your Elsa sheet”, and they can find it much more easily. They will not have to ask what content is on the sheet or when the sheet was passed out. Using this method has helped me greatly with class organization and class time.
http://gssdstudentengagement.wikispaces.com/Teaching+Strategies+for+Participation
Lucky Souvannarath - Constructing Your Own Supplemental Material
The provided download is a resource describing the benefits of creating personalized supplemental material for your classroom, along with helpful tips on how to make them. An example is also provided below as a download.Post miscellaneous resources here.
Sheila Stone-- Mythology Bingo Game!
Shown is one of the game boards I made and given in the docs are the images used for printing.
Erich Rumback - Rome Reborn Video and Graphic Organizer for Research/Essay assignment
Tour Time!Take a tour of Ancient Rome using the Rome Reborn video link below:
https://vimeo.com/32038695
As you travel throughout the ancient city, pay special attention to the buildings and other clues about Ancient Roman life.
You may watch the video to the end (5 min) before searching back to the building or structure of your choice. This is an independent assignment. (No partners or small groups)
Assignment:Choose one building or structure to research for a short written essay (5 paragraphs.)
You may choose one picture, which can be saved to the class flash drive for printing.
Suggested sites for additional resources:http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/romarch.htm#!
http://www.crystalinks.com/romearchitecture.html
http://www.ancient.eu/Roman_Architecture/
http://www.kidinfo.com/world_history/ancient_rome.html
http://www.roman-empire.net/tours/rome.html
Rome Reborn 13:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgA6G75XsI
Isabela Nickel- A Plethora of Resources...All In One!
This website is an excellent resource to use when planning lessons or designing instruction. You can choose from a variety of lesson plans, the grade level you are teaching, and the state. The website will then give you the standards for your state that are being exemplified in your lesson! Pretty cool. If you are all out of ideas and need a good resource to freshen up and include state standards, this website has your back!
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Brian Records - Super Cool Box!
Folks! I got this box that helps me stay organized. It's pretty much just a file cabinet that is portable. It's really nice because I can file all of my graded, ungraded, and unentered student assignments by class separately. Also, I keep all of my extra lesson plans and worksheets in here. Then, I can bring this box home with me, and back to school again.
As soon as I take assignments out of the tray, they go in this box, and they stay in here - and I can be certain that I have kept track of all assignments. This makes dealing with the comment "I turned that in!" much easier, as I can confidently tell the student to check their binder.
Austin Mann - ZipGrade- Grade Paper Tests and Exit Tickets
Description: Grade multiple choice tests, quizzes, and assessments instantly in the classroom from your smart phone. The free version gives you 200 tests and quizzes for free to grade. After that it costs only a dollar for unlimited. USD 259 has the correct testing paper for it, and they are more than willing to use it. It cuts your grading time down by half. It will tell which answers the students got right and which ones they got wrong. It’s a fantastic tool that I’ve used myself and I highly recommend its use. You can get it at the app store, or download it at www.ZipGrade.com. Most school districts will actually give you the dollar to download the unlimited version.Lindsey B. - Live Binders (Your three-ring binder for the web.)
http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/home
Stephanie Deaver- Teachers Pay Teachers
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/This website provides lesson plans and complete units for almost anything that a teacher would like to teach. You are able to post your own lessons to the site and bring in some extra income as well. There are resources such as PowerPoint's over vocabulary, study guides for guided reading, and some units even upload tests that you can administer to students. There are multiple units for almost every area of study, and it allows you to sort uploads by grade level, price, and subject. Some of the material is free, but most cost around $5-10. The larger units cost more, but usually they provide more detailed activities and a larger variety of activities for the class.
Stephanie Deaver- Character Analysis Map
This is a character analysis map that I had my honors sophomores use while talking about the different ways to characterize a character while reading. My students used this map to characterize Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451. It was challenging for students to complete each section of the chart, but not impossible for them to finish. This was a great activity during my unit where students were able to dig deeper into the story and analyze characters for themselves.
Austin Mann - Organizing Student Papers
Using Disney characters to help keep assignments more organized is a useful tool in helping students go back to past assignments and makes turning in or passing back so much easier. The example I have provided is the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. It allows students to write down characters and their traits. Since they will have to go back to this sheet many times, I have put Elsa, a character that they all know, on the front of the assignment. This way I can say “Pull out your Elsa sheet”, and they can find it much more easily. They will not have to ask what content is on the sheet or when the sheet was passed out. Using this method has helped me greatly with class organization and class time.